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"lindon" <lindon@heaven0.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> "that good to know",
> mine runs at 51c idle and 55c full
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> 3.4E running at 31c ide 40c full
> 2*120g harddrives running at 29c
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> room temp 23c
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> look like all the cooling in the case is working well,
> thank.
How are you measuring your temps? If you are running 51c at idle I can
assure you it will be running much hotter than 55c at full load. Mine is
running at 57c idle right now at almost the same room temp as you, and if I
run a program called rthdribl.exe in a window while watching the nVidia
properties screen it will climb to over 82c while that test is running. The
second I exit the program it drops over 12 degrees and then continues to
drop fast after that. So if you are not measuring the temp. and watching it
while the program is running then you are not getting a true reading under
full load. It will have dropped a lot after exiting the program and then
looking at the temp. I have a BFG 6800GT OC.